Bolognius Maximus

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“Bolognius Maximus”
Invader Zim episode

Bologna Dib chases bologna Zim.
Episode no. Season 1
Episode 11A
Written by Rob Hummel
Directed by Steve Ressel
Production no. 12A
Original airdate Sept 21, 2001
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Bolognius Maximus is an episode of Invader Zim originally produced as episode 12A, but aired as episode 11A on September 21, 2001. On the DVD commentary, Jhonen Vasquez states that this is his favorite episode. He also states that with this episode he wished for something like The Fly, only stupider and that he always had this thing about people turning into bologna.

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During lunchtime at their school, Dib mocks Zim's repulsion of human food, and throws a piece of bologna at him. Zim vows revenge on Dib for this. However, the only form of vengeance is a seemingly innocuous plan of putting a tack on Dib's seat.

The next day, Dib notices that his skin tastes "delicious", as observed by the neighborhood dogs, who crowd around Dib. Dib analyses his DNA and discovers that it has somehow absorbed bologna DNA. The conclusion is that Zim's revenge was a form of ironic punishment, to turn Dib into meat by the use of bologna DNA transferred to Dib through the tack. Defeated, Dib goes to Zim and concedes. Zim goes into an arrogant rant of victory, and proceeds to shake his hand. But Zim recoils in pain, and realizes that Dib placed the bologna tack in his hand to prick him with it.

Zim realizes he'll soon be turning into meat too, and as Dib is the only one with the technology to save them both from turning into sausage, he agrees to help. However, Zim is unable to find a cure, and in frustration and anger as the pair mutate farther into meat, Dib chases Zim, ending up outside and surrounded by drooling dogs.

By the end of the episode, dogs have surrounded the house where Zim and Dib have taken refuge and the pair are almost unrecognizable pieces of sausage. Dib just says to Zim, "You jerk". They are back to normal by the next episode, of course.

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Season One Episodes Pilot • The Nightmare Begins • Parent Teacher Night • Walk of Doom • Bestest Friend • NanoZim • Germs • Dark Harvest • Attack of the Saucer Morons • The Wettening • Career Day • Battle-Dib • A Room with a Moose • Hamstergeddon • Invasion of the Idiot Dog Brain • Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy • Planet Jackers • Rise of the Zitboy • Plague of Babies • Bloaty's Pizza Hog • Bolognius Maximus • Game Slave 2 • Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom • Mysterious Mysteries • Future Dib • Door to Door • FBI Warning of Doom • Battle of the Planets • Abducted • The Sad, Sad Tale of Chickenfoot • Megadoomer • Lice • Tak: The Hideous New Girl • GIR Goes Crazy and Stuff • Dib's Wonderful Life of Doom • Hobo 13 •

Walk for Your Lives
Season Two Episodes The Most Horrible X-mas Ever • Backseat Drivers From Beyond the Stars • Mortos Der Soulstealer • Zim Eats Waffles • The Girl Who Cried Gnome • Dibship Rising • Vindicated • The Voting of the Doomed • Gaz, Taster of Pork • The Frycook What Came from All That Space • unfinished episodes
Main Characters Zim • GIR • Dib • Gaz • Almighty Tallest • Professor Membrane • Tak • Ms. Bitters • The Resisty
Planets Callnowia • Conventia • Foodcourtia • Irk • Meekrob • Other Planets
Irken Technology Vehicles & Weapons • SIR units
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